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'works', 'Thinking and Experience' and 'Human Personality'
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 1. Thought
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The mind is imprisoned and limited by language, restricting our awareness of wider thoughts [Weil]
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Recognition must precede the acquisition of basic concepts, so it is the fundamental intellectual process [Price,HH]
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18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / g. Controlling emotions
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Plato wanted to somehow control and purify the passions [Vlastos on Plato]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought
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Abstractions can be interpreted dispositionally, as the ability to recognise or imagine an item [Price,HH]
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If ideas have to be images, then abstract ideas become a paradoxical problem [Price,HH]
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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection
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The basic concepts of conceptual cognition are acquired by direct abstraction from instances [Price,HH]
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